Pirating Windows 95, British Airways Hack, & More…

We’re back with all the links you need to stay up to date on the latest happenings in software development. This week’s edition reaches way back in time to Windows 95. It also looks ahead with information about the future of security, code craftsmanship, .NET releases, and workplace culture. Let’s get to it!

Top Stories

• Windows 95 as an Electron app is software piracy, but it’s also history preservation
• 22 lines of code were enough to steal sensitive customer information from British Airways
• The world’s most popular browser turns 10 years old and gets a redesign

Developer Insights

• Using templates in Eclipse could save you tons of time developing Java applications
• Just because your code is working doesn’t mean you’re done; there are reasons to clean code up
• If you’re a .NET developer and you haven’t seen the keynote from the .NET conference, you can watch it online
• Visual Studio can help you store user secrets, like connection strings, using the Azure Key Vault

Professional Advice

• Incentivizing your best employees to stay at your company: it’s not just about paying them more
• This massive post outlines everything a junior dev should know to get a great start in the industry
• Receiving work-related emails after work hours impacts employee happiness, stress, and productivity. Good leaders set rules around company email culture.

Tips from Intertech

• We’ve got another NgRx tutorial — this time learn how to add router info to state
• Tom Salonek: It takes hard work to be a great place to work. We recently were named a Great Place to Work by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal for the 14th time.

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Originally published at Intertech Blog.